Philadelphia Quotes - Page 7

• In fact, anybody else who hears this [speech of Donald Trump in Philadelphia] is probably gonna be dutifully impressed with Trump's comportment, his presentation, his knowledge of this, and his temperament here. It's all a great package and looks good.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Looks, Speech, Facts

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

  Kevin Bacon

  Dad, Guy, World

  "Kevin Bacon: this much I know". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people. We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it.

  Eustace Mullins

  Two, People, Touching

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• Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value.

  George Mason

  New York, War, Boston

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• In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Slavery, Quaker, Feels

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.24, Anza Publishing

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• My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

  C. Everett Koop

  Jobs, Children, Years

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• The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball.

  Harry Kalas

  Baseball, Champion, World

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• When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

  Tom Glazer

  Jobs, Night, Car

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• At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

  Amar Bose

  Radio, Grew, I Realized

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• When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, People, African American

  "Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'". www.politico.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Fall, Careers

  "OPEN SEASON / Uecker left mark on scouting reports" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2003.

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• On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, America, Missing

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• I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Next Day

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

  Jill Scott

  Wall, California, Track

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• I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

  Penn Jillette

  Real, Festivals, Renaissance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Long, African American

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• When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Years, Careers

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

  Norman Granz

  Next Week, Years, Play

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• Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports, Winning, Following

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• When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

  Bil Keane

  Teacher, School, Drawing

  "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2002.

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• I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.

  Gerald Stern

  Jobs, Years, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the prayer in Arabic and I don't understand a word of Arabic but I just remember these tears just coming down my face and it just really connecting to my spirit in a way that felt like I needed to pay attention to that.

  Mahershala Ali

  Strong, Prayer, Wife

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to college and fell in love with this city, and particularly, my neighborhood on the north side of Philadelphia.

  Shane Claiborne

  Boys, College, Cities

  Source: medium.com

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• Tomorrow, America's most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she'll get out on the ice and skate around reporters' questions, so it should be interesting.

  Jay Leno

  Mom, Hockey, Ice

  "Comics keep on poking political fun". The Associated Press, www.today.com. October 13, 2008.

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